I have to maintain the weight. This is the second show [Aladdin] that I have done where I am not allowed to technically lose any weight. I'm supposed to be big. It's impressive to see someone of my size.

I am still nervous every show. Not in the Wow, I'm scared, I can't go on nervous, but the I really want to do a good job and the give the audience a great show kind of nervous. Oh, yes, the nerves are there, but I let them push me instead of holding me back.

I do enjoy that folks [ Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin] really get into [ Aladdin ] because I enjoy getting it. I love it where you just get to go nuts. Ninety percent of what you hear, he wrote. There's ten percent that he let me play around with in the studio and actually put in the script if it was funny enough.

I love performing. There is an ego in me that loves to be in front of people.

One of the great things about this genie [from Aladdin] is that when Robin Williams created him, and they created this after him, they were allowed to go crazy and when they had to go find someone to play the role live, they had to find someone who was nutty enough to go in different directions.

When you see big people, they expect them to wobble or something. The whole feeling of bigger people in this country is so negative. This works for me.

I'm a big Batman fan and got to be on the series Gotham.

There are people out there who pay their hard earned money to see a good show and people who work 9 to 5 and they saved their money and they want to see the best show possible.

When I was skinny, I didn't get work. When I came out of college, I didn't get work until the Iglehart gene kicked in. Most of my family are large and that's when it started happening. My acrobats moves stayed with me.